Nauru

Wall Street Journal Headlines

Nauru fired its only magistrate and barred its chief justice from entering the country, a move rights groups said suggested the island may be hardening the asylum-seeker detention system it operates on behalf of Australia.

Nauru, a tiny South Pacific atoll that is home to a controversial refugee camp, is hoping to shake its reputation as a money-laundering haven and revive its banking system years after the government shut it down.

Cambodia said it plans to sign an agreement with Australia after months of negotiations to resettle around 1,000 asylum seekers detained at an Australian facility in the tiny South Pacific nation of Nauru.

Cambodia has agreed in principle to take in asylum seekers intercepted while trying to enter Australia, in a plan backed by the U.N. but opposed by rights advocates concerned about possible ill-treatment of refugees.

February's riots at an Australian-backed detention center in Papua New Guinea, in which an Iranian man was beaten to death, were triggered by "frustration and anxiety" at Canberra's tougher stance toward asylum seekers.

Ferrovial abandoned a takeover bid for Australia’s Transfield Services, a major setback in the Spanish construction company’s plan to compete for billions of dollars of new infrastructure projects Down Under.

President Obama’s threat punitive action against North Korea following the Sony cyberattack raises a sticky question: what can the U.S. power do to an isolated country that has successfully resisted decades worth of attempts to rein in its hostility?